Make perfect sense. I just wasn't sensible about it. I will do that. Thanks for all the help.
-----Original Message----- From: John Tolmachoff (Lists) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 4:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Exchange 2k and Imail > John, my fault on split DNS then. I understood split to be hosting > internal zones on an internal server and your external zones on a > separate server, which I do. I didn't know I had to create zones on my > internal DNS server that are for external hosts. Is that what your > saying, because that seems odd. ExampleA.com is on an external DNS. Website and mail server are behind a firewall with NAT on a local LAN. Internet looking for exampleA.com gets resolution from external DNS. Fine. Any thing on that LAN, if there is no zone for exampleA.com on the internal DNS server, will be sent to the external DNS server. They will then receive the public IP address, which they will not reach because the firewall will say you want this, it is on the local LAN, go there. Therefore, you have to use Split DNS. What you have to do is duplicate the exampleA.com zone on the internal DNS server except use the internal IP addresses. > Since the exchange server and the imail server are hosting multiple > zones I would assume the easiest thing to do would be create zones on my > INTERNAL dns server for each domain. If I understand you right. This > would eliminate the need for the hosts file's use. Since I have never > had issue with any external mail being sent/received to these servers I > know my external dns is and has been right. Correct. John Tolmachoff MCSE CSSA Engineer/Consultant eServices For You www.eservicesforyou.com To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
